Improvement in portable flower-stands



UNIT D STATES PATENT OFEIoE.

DANIEL M. REYNOLDS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FLOWER-STANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,399, dated November 23, 1875; application filed April 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL M. REYNOLDS, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new, useful, and im proved Portable Flower-Stand, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, which will enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, and in an elevation, partly in section, of my improved device.

In the drawing, A represents the centerpiece of the stand. B isa dish or basin screwed on the top of the piece A. For the purpose of forming this connection between the parts A and B the former terminates ina screw which enters a female screw in the basin, as shown. C and D are vertical pieces, to the upper ends of which are attached the disks 0 and D, the manner of attaching them thereto being the same as that employed for the purpose of attaching the dish B to the piece A. E F G are horizontalv pieces. The pieces E and G are screwed into thepiece A. The piece G is also screwed into the piece D. The piece 0 is screwed into the piece G, and the piece F is screwed into the piece 0. H and I are screwpins passing freely through the pieces 0 and D, and entering the pieces E and F, respectively, as shown.

These parts may be separated from each other by unscrewing the dish B and disks 0 and D from the parts to which they are at;

tached, removing the pins H and I, and unscrewing the remaining parts from each other.

In reuniting the parts, the part A should be arranged vertically, and the parts E and G screwed into it; the part 0 should then be screwed into the part G, and the pin H arranged as shown. The part F should then be screwed into the part 0. The part D may then be run upon the part G, and the pin I inserted. The dish and disks may then be arranged in their proper places.

The disks 0 and D are to support the crooks. Water may be placed in the dish B, and the evaporation will aid in keeping the plants in a proper condition. I make no claim to the dish for this purpose, and do not intend to limit myself to a stand provided with such a device.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a flowerstand, consisting of the vertical parts or standards A O D, the crock-supports O D, and the horizontal parts or connecting-pieces E F G, the said parts being more or less in number,

and adapted, by means of male and female screws forming a part thereof, for attachment to each other for the purposes set forth.

DANIEL. M. REYNOLDS.

Witnesses:

F. F. WARNER, N. G. GRIDLEY. 

